Academy Awards Nominees Announced

The nominees for the 85th annual Academy Awards have been announced, and while most nominations were as predicted, Amour & Beasts Of The Southern Wild surprised everyone with a couple of nominations each. Life Of Pi, which was my favorite film last year, took a deserving total of 11 nominations. Unfortunately and surprisingly Ben Affleck & Tom Hooper were left aside from the Best Director category. Disney took control of the Best Animated film category with Frankenweenie, Brave & Wreck-It Ralph against Paranorman & The Pirates. Hit the jump for the full list of nominees.
Performance by an actor in a leading role

“Before My Time” from “Chasing Ice”
Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
“Everybody Needs A Best Friend” from “Ted”
Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
“Pi’s Lullaby” from “Life of Pi”
Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
“Skyfall” from “Skyfall”
Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
“Suddenly” from “Les Misérables”
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

“Amour” Written by Michael Haneke
“Django Unchained” Written by Quentin Tarantino
“Flight” Written by John Gatins
“Moonrise Kingdom” Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
“Zero Dark Thirty” Written by Mark Boal